Abraham Lincoln Wasn’t the Only Target on His Assassination Date

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Key Takeaways:

John Wilkes Booth assassinated President Abraham Lincoln on April 14, 1865.

Booth was part of a nine-person conspiracy that also planned to kill Vice President Andrew Johnson and Secretary of State William Seward. Both men survived.

Five of the conspirators were killed, and the four others served prison time.

Nearly everyone knows that on April 14, 1865 , President Abraham Lincoln was shot and killed in Ford’s Theatre in Washington by actor and Confederate sympathizer John Wilkes Booth . But what many might not realize is that while Booth was the man who pulled the trigger, he didn’t act alone. Moreover, the murder of a president wasn’t the only bloody deed Booth hoped would occur that night.

To say that there was a “conspiracy” involved in the assas